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A collection of 101 real-world web scraping and data-collection exercises in Python 3, created for Stanford's Computational Journalism class. Each task involves researching a data source online and writing a short script to fetch and print the answer.

Use cases

• learn web scraping with python 3
• practice exercises for data journalism
• find examples of scraping public government data
• teach a computational journalism class
• get started with python data collection tasks
• examples of fetching and parsing web data

When to choose

• you want hands-on scraping practice with real-world targets
• you're teaching or learning data journalism and need exercise material
• you want small example scripts for scraping public datasets

When to avoid

• you need production-quality, best-practice scraping code
• you need a maintained library or framework for scraping
• you need up-to-date scripts, since many target sites have changed

Facets

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